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Got an xAI offer and a friend told me I’m making the worst mistake of my career. (Blind)

• Boohoofe (Amazon): I’ve heard they have shit wlb, but I don’t know much about xai tbh. How did you prep? how did you get a first round?
• mustafuh (eBay): I’m currently at xAI. It’s a tough gig and the hours are long. But at the end of the day you’ll be growing very quickly here doing some of the best work of your life. It’s not for the faint hearted but I make 2.2M at 28 years old and I’ve led projects that I couldn’t dream of before I joined this place.
  
  Stay away from negative people who have stopped dreaming big. Come over.
• KMVz77 (Meta): Make the decision based on role, level, comp, and how interesting the team is to you. Not what your friend says. There’s also just lots of political(ish) bias against specific big tech in general, but I can’t imagine someone hating Elon but being okay with Zuck lmao.
  
  I’ve never worked for Elon, but from what I’ve always heard, don’t expect good WLB or easy work. I’d imagine it wouldn’t be much worse than Meta though (team dependent).
  
  If I worked in-office at Meta, and had a better offer in xAI with interesting work, I’d take it.

xAI’s “No LeetCode” Interview Is a Joke (Blind)

• atwx (ByteDance): Agreed. I’ve been thrown off by similar experiences at startups. There’s no shame in saying you use LeetCode-style questions instead of practical coding problems. Just be upfront about it. Otherwise, it’s a waste of everyone’s time.
• iRpT46 (Grammarly): To be fair: given Elon BS claims over the last 10 years, if you still believe what his companies claim, that’s on you. 😂
• chadzeus (Mastercard): To be fair, Leetcode still absolutely helps for any coding interview, even when they claim it’s not DSA or Leetcode.

Performance focused reduction at Qualcomm now (Blind)

• srsgabria (Intuit): 22% is what I heard
• Odysseyus (Intel): If performance based layoff is done, Christiano should be fired first. Worst CEO among big silicon companies
• hubnoa (HubSpot): We are having ourselves a (performance) competition. First place: a new Cadillac, second place: a set of steak knives, third place: you’re fired.

Every talented person at Meta that I know is leaving (Blind)

• ztni32 (Meta): As they should. It’s a shitshow working inside. It used to be an amazing place to work. Now it fucking blows. So your senior most people get paid a fortune while limiting upper mobility for everyone else and creating a culture of the hunger games. Nobody wants this shit.
  
  Anyway, yeah, definitely looking to get out of there.
• Poor2Rich (Alarm.com): This is the perfect time for me to join!
  
  Tc: unemployed
• justread27 (Microsoft): But where are they going? Which company isn’t laying people off

LinkedIn offer validity period. (Blind)

• JOsExWife (Two Sigma): Email just went out yesterday about a hiring freeze at LinkedIn bro
• asdfvbh (SmartNews): 1 yr. but don’t count on it. Its only the hr who can vouch for you and a lot of them won’t to keep existing pipeline engaged and going
• coasting🏄‍♂️🏄‍♀️ (LinkedIn): lol I was one of your interviewers.
  
  If you asked me this question 4 years ago I would’ve said 6-12 months should be safe and you can count on it.
  
  But my answer isn’t the same today. Given how the market is and how we’re hiring in a very targeted way most likely it won’t be available in 6 months.